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Fighting south of Yemen’s Marib results in 156 members of the Iran-backed Houthi militia being killed
2021-10-12
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The operation also involved eight Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
military vehicles being destroyed.

"We are committed to supporting the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i National Army and protecting Yemeni citizens from the militia's brutality," the coalition said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

The offensive was part of a wider strategy of preventing Houthi incursion into the Abdiya district in Marib governate
...the site of what is believed to be the biblical kingdom of Sheba...
More than 550 Houthis have been killed in the last 19 days, according to the Arab coalition.

In February, the Houthi militia escalated its attacks and military operations to control Marib in a civil war that has been raging since 2014.
Related:
Marib: 2021-10-10 Good Morning
Marib: 2021-10-10 UN: 10,000 Displaced as Clashes Escalate over Marib
Marib: 2021-10-04 Two children were killed and 33 other civilians injured in Houthi missile strikes on Yemen's central Marib city
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